...evaluate in the first instance from the standpoint of actual fulfillment of this assignment.

By the way:

a) The report indicates that Kominlit has passed a resolution on the transfer of all credits from all departments to the Kominlit account. Has this resolution been carried out?

How many credits have been received from each department?

b) On page 3 of the report it is stated: "In boxes of scientific-technical literature there were received a mass of things representing absolutely nothing important or remarkable — fiction and luxurious artistic publications, expensive, purchased for unknown purposes (for private individuals) in the manner of a personal favor."

This is an unheard-of outrage and a crime. What has Kominlit done to punish those responsible? Immediately inform me of the names of those guilty and how they have been punished.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written September 30, 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the typescript

signed by V. I. Lenin